All That Man Is - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Nine men. Each of...
Eileen - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR T...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR T...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP ...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 20...
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BO...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosi...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosi...
The North Water - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TO...
The North Water - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES T...
The Unseen - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATION...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017Nobod...
Frankenstein in Baghdad - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKE...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WIN...
Fever Dream - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIO...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A...
Fever Dream - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIO...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A...
All That Man Is - Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize 2016
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ’Smith’s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous’ Observer ‘Superb’ Financial Times ‘Breathtaking’ TLS ‘Pitch-perfect’ Daily Telegraph’A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class… A page-turner that’s also beautifully written ‘ Glamour’There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith’ Telegra...
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ’Smith’s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous’ Observer ‘Superb’ Financial Times ‘Breathtaking’ TLS ‘Pitch-perfect’ Daily Telegraph’A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class… A page-turner that’s also beautifully written ‘ Glamour’There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith’ Telegra...
Eat That Frog! - Get More of the Important Things Done - Today!
There just isn’t enough time for everything on our ‘To Do’ list – and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done. There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do al...
Sing, Unburied, Sing - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMAÂ’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC Â’A mustÂ’ Margaret AtwoodÂ’StaggeringÂ’ Marlon JamesÂ’A searing, urgent readÂ’ Celeste NgÂ’Disarmingly beautifulÂ’ SpectatorÂ...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An “essential examination” (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this “sumptuous” (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal “pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire” (Time). “A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Leavers - Winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize for Fiction
FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2017 FINALIST, PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR FICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2017 BY OPRAH, NPR, BUZZFEED AND HUFFINGTON POST ’Sensational’ – Guardian ’Utterly immersive’ – Daily Mail ’There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving...
The Dark Circle - Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction’Extraordinarily affecting’ Alex Preston, Observer ’This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas . . . Grant brings the 1950s – that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation – into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus’ – Christobel Kent Guardian All over Britain life is beginning again now the wa...
The End of the Day - shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year 2017
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR 2017***‘Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache’ Sunday Times’Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive” Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4’Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful’ Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone – but only once. Som...
The Sellout - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
`Outrageous, hilarious and profound.Â’ Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at BeattyÂ’s pages, the smarter youÂ’ll get.Â’ Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel IÂ’ve read.Â’ New York Times A biting satire about a young manÂ’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his g...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettableÂ’ The Economist Â’A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievementÂ’ TLS Â’Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrenÂ’s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The GodfatherÂ’ S...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettableÂ’ The Economist Â’A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievementÂ’ TLS Â’Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrenÂ’s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The GodfatherÂ’ S...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Â’In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politiciansÂ’ Financial Times Â’Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comfortingÂ’ The Times Â’A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realitiesÂ… The ...
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece. `My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion – books like these are why I love reading’ LEE CHILD When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol ...
Sight - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Â’A stunning debutÂ’ GuardianIn Jessie GreengrassÂ’ superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history...
History of Wolves - Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda ‘Freak’, or ‘Commie’. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect fa...
Frankenstein in Baghdad - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION Â’ExtraordinaryÂ… A devastating but essential read.Â’ Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds Â’Gripping, darkly humorousÂ…profound.Â’ Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment From the rubble-strewn str...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top ten book of 2017 WINNER of the LA Times Prize for Fiction * WINNER of the Aspen Words Literary Prize ’Astonishing’ Zadie Smith * ‘Stunning’ Spectator * ‘Extraordinary’ TLS An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist This is Nadia. She is fiercely i...
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
When Philip Marsden; award-winning author of a number of works of travel; fiction; and non-fiction; moved to a remote; creek side farmhouse in Cornwall; UK; it took him on a journey through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tinatagel; Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place reveals that the shape o...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 “Astonishing and unsettling … A masterwork” San Francisco Chronicle “A book that demands to be read.” Wall Street Journal A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to ma...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chesterton’s 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes ‘Thursday’, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
Fashionable Projects for the New Knitter
Simple can be stylish too – and anyone who can do a basic ‘knit and purl’ can make these chic items with no trouble at all. The trick: using quality yarns in beautiful colours and textures. The results will look marvellous…and no one need know that the designer scarf used an easy loose stitch and took just a few hours to create! And there’s lots to choose from: 34 projects that include hats, ...